NEW DELHI: The BSE Oil Gas index was trading 0.39 per cent down at 15,021 around 3 pm on Monday.
Petronet LNG (down 1.25 per cent), ONGC (down 1.14 per cent), GAIL (India) (down 0.82 per cent), Reliance Industries (RIL) (down 0.68 per cent), Oil India (down 0.35 per cent) and BPCL (down 0.17 per cent) were the losers in the index.
Shares of HPCL (up 1.91 per cent), Indraprastha Gas (up 0.50 per cent), Castrol India (up 0.31 per cent) and Indian Oil Corporation (up 0.10 per cent) were the gainers.
Benchmark BSE Sensex was 259 points down at 38,386, while the NSE Nifty50 index was down 81 points at 11,599.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 24 were trading in the green, while 26 were in the red.
In the Sensex kitty, 12 stocks were advancing and 19 were declining.Hindustan Unilever, PowerGrid and Axis Bank were the top losers in the Sensex index.